I had a few photography books from before the digital era. One was a book called Camera. I think it was a Time-Life publication. Another was called The Family of Woman. There were beautiful photos, startling photos, disturbing photos. I found most of them to be fascinating, and didn't question or judge why a photographer would choose a certain subject to photograph.

I post mostly pleasant pictures. I have a harder time expressing the darker side of life.

The value of expressing the darker side is we get to take our own time to examine shadow. We take a little control over our experience of the painful, and it helps us to become more conscious about what we do, and what we let happen through inaction.

If we take some time to bring what's hurt us to light, our anger is less likely to leak or explode from us in unconscious ways. Perhaps by examining the underside, we learn how to circumvent some of the ugliness of life, and how to manage the hurt that cannot be avoided.